To go too far in the pursuit of form just like letting a presumptuous guest usurp the host's role, which brings about opposite results.
Added to this was the increasing fear that women would use heels and other sexualized modes of dress to seduce men and usurp power.
As the story goes, the Han people of that time resented the Mongol rule of the Yuan Dynasty and revolutionaries, led by Chu Yuan-chang, plotted to usurp the throne.
It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians.
When he read about Jacob dressing himself in sheep-skins to personify Esau, and so to usurp his brother's birthright, he would clench his little fist in anger against the deceiver; when he read of tyrants and of the injustice and wickedness of the world, tears would come into his eyes, and he was quite filled with the thought of the justice and truth which must and would triumph.
